Five months after former U.S. Rep. Trey Radel resigned following his arrest on a cocaine-possession charge, voters in Lee and Collier counties will choose his replacement in a special election Tuesday.

Much of the talk following Republican David Jolly’s win in the special election for Congressional District 13 has been the campaign was a victory over Obamacare and a sign of a Republican landslide in November.

The race to replace the late Representative Bill Young between Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly will come to a crescendo Tuesday in a special election. Both sides see a potential victory as validation for their respective world view heading into 2014’s mid-term elections.

A day after the first debate in the special election for District 13’s Congressional seat, Republican candidate David Jolly is calling on a Republican with a familiar name to further boost his campaign.